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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by andreareina on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:43AM (#26164147)
> The only scenario I can think of is when people didn't intentionally subscribe or were coerced into subscribing and those newsletters can go to hell and fully deserve to be marked as spam.

Yeah that's the better part of 95% of them for me.

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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by lawl on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:55AM (#26164230)
> Yeah that's the better part of 95% of them for me.

100% of them for me because i don't want any stupid newsletters. Yes, all of them go into the spam folder.

For some business that I otherwise am a customer off i also forward their shit spam to their support and tell them to unsubscribe me, even if they have a link. For the simple reason that if they feel like they can waste my time with their shit, i'm gonna waste theirs too.

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Re:Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' by Nextgrid on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:46AM (#26164162)
It seems like a non-problem, ie the system working as designed, and the GP is just misled by "best practices" peddled by email marketing scum?

If you're running a legit newsletter that people want I can't imagine enough people would be marking it as spam for it to actually affect your reputation.

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